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Pharmaceutical company might do, i would hope they would work in the interest of the patient. i think the discussion should be on how do we assess patients for pain management and understand we have other treatments. if they do develop an addiction problem, what are the resources for those patients? we need to understand pain management and deal with patients who are suffering. we have millions of patients withd chronic pain and they need to have their pain treated effectively. i'm not implying we all need to be on opioids. there has been a lot done to decide -- stratify patients, how do we mo...

Addiction was low. over time we have seen there is a risk for addiction with patients and there's still a problem. using medications with the wrong patients, developing addiction problems, misusing medicines can lead to all sorts of problems. studies more recently have shown that the risk of addiction starting with pain and separate from having a substance abuse problem, is 10% or higher than that. it is low but still significant but we have to beo careful. i think what's important is that pain management isn't synonymous with opioid management. >> tucker: if you take three steps back, here yo...